Ecclesiastes 7:24
Whatever hath been, is far off, and exceeding deep: who will find it out?
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?
In Context
23All this have I tried by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.
Cross References
Job 11:7Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection?
Job 28:23God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth its place:
Psalms 36:6Thy righteousness is like the high mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: thou, Jehovah, preservest man and beast.
Isaiah 55:8For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith Jehovah.
1 Timothy 6:16who only has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light; whom no man has seen, nor is able to see; to whom [be] honour and eternal might. Amen.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 7:24-29
The Evil of Sin. 23 All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me. 24 That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out? 25 I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness: 26 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by… Read the whole commentary →